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Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. [if "Mount" precedes the name, usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.

First recorded ascent 16 August 1961 by L.Scott Arighi, Arthur Maki & Robert West. "This peak is the highest in the area, and perhaps the highest in all of northeastern British Columbia. Data from our survey is still in the process of calculation, but provisionally we estimate the altitude of this mountain at 9900'. ...with Cyclops Peak providing a starting point, suggested names for other features in the area have been taken from Homer's epic poem "Odyssey"..... and Mt. Ulysses seems a fitting name for this spectacular summit." (August 1961 letter from Robert West, file W.1.53) [Elevation identified as 3024m / 9921.26 feet on 1:20,000 provincial base map.]

One of a suite of names taken from Homer's "Odyssey": Ulysses (Odysseus) was the hero of Homer's epic poem - a king of Ithaca and Greek leader in the Trojan War, who after the war wandered for 10 years before reaching home.